Bible Reading January 20 and 21
World English Bible
Jan.
20
Genesis
20
Gen
20:1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and
lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
Gen
20:2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister."
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Gen
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to
him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you
have taken. For she is a man's wife."
Gen
20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will
you kill even a righteous nation?
Gen
20:5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself,
said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the
innocence of my hands have I done this."
Gen
20:6 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the
integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you
from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
Gen
20:7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and
he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her,
know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
Gen
20:8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very
scared.
Gen
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have
you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought
on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that
ought not to be done!"
Gen
20:10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you
have done this thing?"
Gen
20:11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God
is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
Gen
20:12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father,
but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Gen
20:13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's
house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall
show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my
brother." ' "
Gen
20:14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female
servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to
him.
Gen
20:15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell
where it pleases you."
Gen
20:16 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a
thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the
eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."
Gen
20:17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and
his female servants, and they bore children.
Gen
20:18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of
Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Jan.
21
Genesis
21
Gen
21:1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as
he had spoken.
Gen
21:2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen
21:3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to
him, Isaac.
Gen
21:4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old,
as God had commanded him.
Gen
21:5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born
to him.
Gen
21:6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears
will laugh with me."
Gen
21:7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah
would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
Gen
21:8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on
the day that Isaac was weaned.
Gen
21:9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to
Abraham, mocking.
Gen
21:10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid
and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my
son, Isaac."
Gen
21:11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of
his son.
Gen
21:12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your
sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that
Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed
be called.
Gen
21:13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because
he is your seed."
Gen
21:14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a
bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder;
and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen
21:15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
Gen
21:16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a
bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the
child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and
wept.
Gen
21:17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to
Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar?
Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen
21:18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will
make him a great nation."
Gen
21:19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went,
filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
Gen
21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness,
and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Gen
21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife
for him out of the land of Egypt.
Gen
21:22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the
captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you
in all that you do.
Gen
21:23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal
falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But
according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to
me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
Gen
21:24 Abraham said, "I will swear."
Gen
21:25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Gen
21:26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing.
Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
Gen
21:27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech.
Those two made a covenant.
Gen
21:28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Gen
21:29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs
which you have set by themselves mean?"
Gen
21:30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my
hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
Gen
21:31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both
swore there.
Gen
21:32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with
Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of
the Philistines.
Gen
21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there
on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Gen
21:34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines
many days.
Jan. 20
Matthew
10
Mat
10:1 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them
authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every
disease and every sickness.
Mat
10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first,
Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of
Zebedee; John, his brother;
Mat
10:3 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James
the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Mat
10:4 Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Mat
10:5 Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, "Don't
go among the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city of the
Samaritans.
Mat
10:6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat
10:7 As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
Mat
10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely
you received, so freely give.
Mat
10:9 Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.
Mat
10:10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes,
nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
Mat
10:11 Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is
worthy; and stay there until you go on.
Mat
10:12 As you enter into the household, greet it.
Mat
10:13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if
it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.
Mat
10:14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go
out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
Mat
10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the
land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Mat
10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Mat
10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils,
and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Mat
10:18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my
sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
Mat
10:19 But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you
will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
Mat
10:20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who
speaks in you.
Mat
10:21 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father
his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to
be put to death.
Mat
10:22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who
endures to the end will be saved.
Mat
10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next,
for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the
cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
Mat
10:24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above
his lord.
Mat
10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and
the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the
house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Mat
10:26 Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing
covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
Mat
10:27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what
you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Mat
10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able
to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul
and body in Gehenna.
Mat
10:29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one
of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
Mat
10:30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat
10:31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many
sparrows.
Mat
10:32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will
also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
Mat
10:33 But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before
my Father who is in heaven.
Mat
10:34 "Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I
didn't come to send peace, but a sword.
Mat
10:35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a
daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law.
Mat
10:36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
Mat
10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
Mat
10:38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't
worthy of me.
Mat
10:39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life
for my sake will find it.
Mat
10:40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me
receives him who sent me.
Mat
10:41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will
receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the
name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
Mat
10:42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold
water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you
he will in no way lose his reward."
Jan.
21
Matthew
11
Mat
11:1 It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve
disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their
cities.
Mat
11:2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent
two of his disciples
Mat
11:3 and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look
for another?"
Mat
11:4 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which
you hear and see:
Mat
11:5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have
good news preached to them.
Mat
11:6 Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."
Mat
11:7 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes
concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to
see? A reed shaken by the wind?
Mat
11:8 But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold,
those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses.
Mat
11:9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and
much more than a prophet.
Mat
11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my
messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'
Mat
11:11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women
there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he
who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
Mat
11:12 From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of
Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mat
11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Mat
11:14 If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to
come.
Mat
11:15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat
11:16 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like
children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
Mat
11:17 and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance.
We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'
Mat
11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He
has a demon.'
Mat
11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,
'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors
and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."
Mat
11:20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his
mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.
Mat
11:21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Mat
11:22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
on the day of judgment than for you.
Mat
11:23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to
Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done
in you, it would have remained until this day.
Mat
11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
Mat
11:25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and
understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Mat
11:26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Mat
11:27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one
knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the
Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Mat
11:28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Mat
11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Mat
11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
